List of Famous people who born in 1908

Ludovico Geymonat was an Italian Marxist philosopher, who gave an original turn to dialectical materialism.

Comer Vann Woodward was a Pulitzer-prize winning American historian focusing primarily on the American South and race relations. He was long a supporter of the approach of Charles A. Beard, stressing the influence of unseen economic motivations in politics. Stylistically, he was a master of irony and counterpoint. Woodward was on the left end of the history profession in the 1930s. By the 1950s he was a leading liberal and supporter of civil rights. His demonstration that racial segregation was a late-19th-century invention rather than some sort of eternal standard made his The Strange Career of Jim Crow into "the historical Bible of the civil rights movement", said Martin Luther King Jr. After attacks on him by the New Left in the late 1960s, he moved to the right politically.

Menachem Avidom was an Israeli composer. His Hebrew surname is the combination of the names of his daughters Daniella and Miriam.

Charles Concordia was a noted American electrical engineer specializing in electrical power engineering and the early history of computer hardware.

Michael Staksrud was a Norwegian World Champion in speed skating.

Begum Qudsia Aizaz Rasul was the only Muslim woman in the Constituent Assembly of India that drafted the Constitution of India.